pyodbc and pypyodbc
Explore how to connect Python applications to various databases using the pyodbc and pypyodbc packages. Understand how to set up ODBC connections, execute queries, and handle results with Python, enhancing your ability to interact with SQL Server and other ODBC-compliant databases.
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard API for accessing databases. Most production databases have an ODBC driver available that we can install to access their database.
pyodbc
One of the most popular methods of connecting via ODBC with Python is
the pyodbc package. According to its page on the Python Packaging Index, we can use it on Windows or Linux.
The pyodbc package implements the DB
API 2.0 specification. We can install pyodbc with pip: